Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator), 773

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Pergamos, die phrygische Burg,

Rings um steinerne Thürme,

Schließt er ein mit blutigem Speer;
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Häupter, vom Nacken gelöst,

Entrafft er, wieder stürzt er¹

Die Feste Troja's in Staub,

Weckt viele Thränen den Jungfraun

Und Priamos' edlem Gemahl.
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Helena, Tochter des Zeus,

Wird trauernd in Zahren sich baden,

Daß sie dem Gatten entflohn. O mögen mir

Und den Kindern der Kinder nie

Solche Ahnungen kommen,
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Wie goldschimmernde Lyderfraun

Und der Phryger Gattinnen bald

Aufschrecken am Webstuhl,

Wenn dort eine zur andern spricht:

780,Wer wird uns am lockigen Haar,
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Uns in Thrånen schwimmend dahin²

Schleppen und trennen vom sinkenden Vaterland?

Deine Schuld ist's, Tochter des Schwans mit hohem Hals,

Wenn die Sage wahr erzählt,

Daß der geflügelte Vogel
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Liebend Leda beruckt,

Da sich Zeus umwandelt' in ihn,

Und eitle Dichtungen nicht

Auf piërischen Tafeln uns³

Sterbliche tauschten zur bösen Stunde."
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Achilleus (tritt auf).

Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides. Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator). . .

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Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (1)

Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι Perseus (Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, Vol. III. Murray, Gilbert, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913. (Reprinted 1920-1978)) — 751-800 focus

Χορός

ἥξει δὴ Σιμόεντα καὶ

δίνας ἀργυροειδεῖς

ἄγυρις Ἑλλάνων στρατιᾶς

ἀνά τε ναυσὶν καὶ σὺν ὅπλοις

Ἴλιον ἐς τὸ Τροίας
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Φοιβήιον δάπεδον,

τὰν Κασάνδραν ἵνʼ ἀκούω

ῥίπτειν ξανθοὺς πλοκάμους

χλωροκόμῳ στεφάνῳ δάφνας

κοσμηθεῖσαν, ὅταν θεοῦ
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μαντόσυνοι πνεύσωσʼ ἀνάγκαι.

762

Χορός

στάσονται δʼ ἐπὶ περγάμων

Τροίας ἀμφί τε τείχη

Τρῶες, ὅταν χάλκασπις Ἄρης

πόντιος εὐπρῴροιο πλάτας
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εἰρεσίᾳ πελάζῃ

Σιμουντίοις ὀχετοῖς,

τὰν τῶν ἐν αἰθέρι δισσῶν

Διοσκούρων Ἑλέναν

ἐκ Πριάμου κομίσαι θέλων
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ἐς γᾶν Ἑλλάδα δοριπόνοις

ἀσπίσι καὶ λόγχαις Ἀχαιῶν.

773

Χορός

Πέργαμον δὲ Φρυγῶν πόλιν

λαΐνους περὶ πύργους

κυκλώσας Ἄρει φονίῳ,
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λαιμοτόμου κεφαλᾶς

σπάσας Πάριν Ἀτρεΐδας,

πέρσας κατάκρας πόλιν,

θήσει κόρας πολυκλαύτους

δάμαρτά τε Πριάμου.
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ἁ δὲ Διὸς Ἑλένα κόρα

πολύκλαυτος ἑδεῖται

πόσιν προλιποῦσα.

μήτʼ ἐμοὶ

μήτʼ ἐμοῖσι τέκνων τέκνοις

ἐλπὶς ἅδε ποτʼ ἔλθοι,
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οἵαν αἱ πολύχρυσοι

Λυδαὶ καὶ Φρυγῶν ἄλοχοι

στήσουσι παρʼ ἱστοῖς

μυθεῦσαι τάδʼ ἐς ἀλλήλας·

Τίς ἄρα μʼ εὐπλοκάμου κόμας
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ῥῦμα δακρυόεν τανύσας

πατρίδος ὀλλυμένας ἀπολωτιεῖ;

διὰ σέ, τὰν κύκνου δολιχαύχενος γόνον,

εἰ δὴ φάτις ἔτυμος ὡς

ἔτυχεν, Λήδα ὄρνιθι πταμένῳ
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Διὸς ὅτʼ ἠλλάχθη δέμας, εἴτʼ

ἐν δέλτοις Πιερίσιν

μῦθοι τάδʼ ἐς ἀνθρώπους

ἤνεγκαν παρὰ καιρὸν ἄλλως.
800

Translations (2)

Iphigenia at Aulis Perseus (Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 751-800 focus

Chorus

The Hellenes’ gathered army will come in arms aboard their ships to Simois with its silver eddies,

to Ilium , the plain of Troy beloved by Phoebus; where Cassandra, I am told, wildly tosses her golden tresses, wreathed with crown of green laurel,
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whenever the god’s resistless prophecies inspire her.
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Chorus

And on the towers of Troy and round her walls shall Trojans stand, when sea-borne troops

with brazen shields row in on shapely ships to the channels of the Simois, eager to take Helen, the sister of that heavenly pair whom Zeus begot, from Priam, and bear her back to Hellas by toil
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of Achaean shields and spears.
770

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Chorus

The son of Atreus, encircling Pergamus , the Phrygians’ town, with murderous war

around her stone-built towers, dragging Paris ’s head backward to cut his throat and sacking the city¹ from roof to base, shall be a cause of many tears to maids and
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Priam’s wife. And Helen, the daughter of Zeus, shall² weep in bitter grief because she left her lord.
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Never may there appear to me or to my children’s children

the prospect which the wealthy Lydian ladies and Phrygia ’s brides will have³ as at their looms they converse:
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Tell me, who will pluck me away from my ruined country, tightening his grasp on lovely tresses till the tears flow? it is all through you, the offspring of the long-necked swan; if indeed it is a true report
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that Leda bore⁴ you to a winged bird, when Zeus transformed himself there, or whether, in the tablets of the poets, fables have carried these tales to men’s ears
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idly, out of season.
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Iphigenia in Aulis (OCR draft) Experimental (Iphigenia in Aulis. Robert Potter's English verse translation, first published in 1781–1783; text from the 1808 Oxford printing.)

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Notes on the current edition

Iphigenia in Aulis

1. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Für πόλιν iſt wohl πάλιν zu lesen, mit Rücksicht auf die frühere Eroberung Ilions durch Herakles.

2. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Mit Hermann: ῥῦμα δακρυόεν τανύσας.

3. [OCR note; compare the printed page.] Pierische Tafeln, auf welche die Pieriden (die Musen) ihre Dichtungen schreiben.

Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis 773

Johann Jakob Christian Donner (Translator)

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